2S [February, 



Heracleuin at Lyiidhurst ; and the curious Goiiatopus pedestris, Dalui., 

 in a gravel pit at Lymiiigton. Chulcls ■minuta, L., occurred on 

 Heracleuin flowers at Lyndliiirst on the first of the month ; and a 

 conspicuous black Chalcid, with great flavus scutellum bearing apical 

 setfc, and infuniate wings was common in Matley Bog. 



IchieumonidcE, to which my attention was primarily directed, were 

 in great profusion, and I succeeded in collecting over four hundred 

 and fifty specimens of this family during the month. Needless to 

 say the majority of these puzzling insects still lie temporarily perdu 

 and unniimed. Such as belong to the Ichneumonids, however, 1 have 

 been able to somewhat thoroughl}^ investigate. Ichneumon fmcipes 

 was occasionally found in Mr. Adams' garden, together with I. con- 

 fusorius, I. leucomelas, I. vestigator, Wesm., and /. lepidus ; I. lauta- 

 torius, Desv., was common in the ^ sex at Matley Bog, but no ? V 

 occurred of this species, which is considered on the continent to be a 

 variety of the common /. vcu/inatorius^ L., no example of which was 

 taken. /. xanthorius, Eorst., was found at Brockenhurst ; /. termina- 

 torius, I. caloscelis, I. himctculatorhis, I. f annus, and /. calliccrus all 

 aftectcd Amjelica flowers in Matle}^ Bog; $ $ oi I.J^ahricatur and /. 

 annul ator, Fab. (curvincrvis. Holmgr.}, were common on the wing ; 

 /. chionomus and I. devofjatur also occurred at Lyndhurst ; Amhlyteles 

 palUatorius was abundant on Anr/clica, the ^ ^ varying very con- 

 siderably in colour; A. urmatorms was taken flying over heather. 

 Hepiopelmus Icucostujmus was swept from 3Iyrica gale in Matley Bog, 

 where Anisohas huiilUl)<, (Jr., var. rebellis, AVesm., turned up on a 

 buckthorn leaf. Proholas aUicola and Fhitijlahus ulbinus, Gr. (crra- 

 hundus, Gr.). appeared in Lyndhurst ; P. rufus on bog myrtle at 

 Matley, and liurylahus rufipes, Steph., which does not seem to have 

 been recorded since the publication of his " Illustrations " in 1S35, 

 ou Angelica in the same locality. Of the remainder of the Ichncu- 

 monidcB, I shall only say that Linoceras macrohatus was quite common 

 on the flowers at Matley ; Bridgman and Eitch knew of but one 

 authentic ]3ritish example of this species in 1883 ; it is said to prey 

 upon JEumenes ; with it was Cn/pfus tnrsoleucus. Agrothcrutes Hopei 

 and Pezomachus fasciatus were swept at Hursthill, with Exolytus 

 l(svigafus*w]nc\\ also occurred at IjYi\dhurst,with. JSa;etastes guttatoi^iuti, 



■ Tho Rev. W. Kirl)y, F.K.S. (Iiitrod. to Ent., ed. vii, l.')4'j, tells us that a species of icbncunion, 

 allied to Alomyia dtbdlalor, " wliicli I have named A. ste.rcorator " (?MS), oviposits in .stercurari- 

 nws larvio : I think, however, the in.sect here referred to must be one reseniLling Exoli/tHe 

 In i-iijiilps, Grav., which I have myself found ovipositing in the head of a dead cow at Ivyiidhurst. 

 It is extremely similar to Gravenhorst'.s species, but differs therefrom in its distinctly tran.sverse 

 and less bnccate head, broader pctiolar spiracles and strongly compressed anus ; it is quite 

 possibly one of Thomson's new SI )p. of ^^rac/oiZifs (Opusc. Ent., x, 1019). I wish to mention 

 this here because the extremely abundant A. UtbcUatur has never been bred, and any indication 

 of its hosts is valuable. — 0. M, 



